It was all fun and games when the target was Black Americans
Non-Human Media
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Mostly here for reparations for descendants of US chattel slavery
Joined June 2021
- Matthew J. Perry describes how in South Carolina you didn't have to pass the bar to practice law until Black Americans started graduating from law schools
00:00 - New terms, same meaningDEI = Didn’t Earn It Genius.
- Buck Colbert Franklin was a Black lawyer who survived the 1921 Tulsa race massacre and fought on the behalf of other survivors Photo circa 1901
- So many people have no idea what segregation actually was. During segregation white people always had access to any Black space they desiredThe irony that some white people want segregation back yet act a fool when they aren’t invited into our spaces.
- If you want to watch a movie that actually explores the relationship between Black Americans and Chinese Americans in the Mississippi Delta please watch Mississippi Triangle
00:00 - Hasan Minhaj: “It's bad to be Black in Desi culture. Even though we all wish we were Black”
00:00 - 40 acres and a mule + American imagery What a message
- It's crazy how an African comedian can do a bit about the differences between Africans and Black people and everyone in the audience knows Black people means Black Americans yet when this point is discussed on Twitter Black PHDs are supposedly unable to grasp this simple concept
00:00 - A document showing Black Americans petitioning Congress for an ex-slave pension Bill Thousands of former slaves signed these petitions demanding pensions for their unpaid forced labor during slavery
- The reason why so many people keep wishing deportation will effect Black Americans on a mass scale and keep using fear tactics to convince us this is the case is because they can't fanthom a reality where Black Americans are not treated worse than every other group at all times
- MLK and other Black Civil Rights Leaders were calling for special programs specifically for Black Americans whose ancestors endured slavery and Jim Crow and predicted people like you would call it reverse discrimination Stop lying about history that your family never experienced
00:00Colorblind meritocracy used to be a progressive idea in the civil rights era. It’s a conservative idea today. Now that we’ve finally reached the promised land, it’ll be interesting to watch where the next wave of opposition comes from.












